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Nick Arter, a thirty-five-year-old in Washington, D.C., never quite managed to become a professional musician the old-fashioned way. He grew up in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in a music-loving family. His father and stepfather were big into nineties hip-hop\u2014Jay-Z, Biggie, Nas\u2014and his uncles were working d.j.s spinning seventies R.\u00a0&\u00a0B. By his adolescence, he and his cousins were recording their own hip-hop tracks, first on cassette boom boxes, then on desktop computers, mimicking Lil Romeo and Lil Bow Wow, the popular kid rappers of the day. Music remained a hobby throughout Arter\u2019s college years, at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. After graduating, he briefly attempted to go pro, selling mixtapes at local shows, before settling into a job running a government call center in Harrisburg. That role eventually led to a position at Deloitte in D.C., and Arter continued rapping on nights and weekends without releasing any music. \u201cI was getting a little bit too old to be a rapper,\u201d he recalled recently. Then, late last year, he started using artificial intelligence to create songs, and, within months, he had hits on streaming platforms netting hundreds of thousands of plays. Maybe he had a musical career after all.<\/p>\n
Arter\u2019s success is emblematic of A.I.\u2019s accelerating inroads into the music industry. No realm of culture or entertainment remains untouched by artificial intelligence: Coca-Cola just released a Christmas ad made with A.I. visuals; A.I. actors are being hyped in Hollywood<\/a>. But the technology has had an especially swift impact on songwriting. A couple of years ago, a smattering of A.I. tracks went viral for using tricks like replicating the voices of pop stars, including Jay-Z and Drake. Now we\u2019re in the midst of a full-blown A.I. music moment. This month, an A.I. country song called \u201cWalk My Walk\u201d (with percussive claps and forgettable lyrics such as \u201cKick rocks if you don\u2019t like how I talk\u201d) hit No. 1 on Billboard\u2019s<\/em> Country Digital Song Sales chart, and passed three million streams on Spotify; the performer behind it is a square-jawed digital avatar named Breaking Rust. In September, Xania Monet, an A.I. R. & B. singer created by a young poet in Mississippi, landed a multimillion-dollar record deal after several Billboard<\/em>-charting singles. And earlier in the year a mysterious psychedelic band called the Velvet Sundown passed a million plays on Spotify before its creators admitted that the group was \u201csynthetic.\u201d Spotify does not mark A.I.-generated content as such,\u00a0and the company has said that it is improving its A.I. filters without defining what qualifies as an A.I. song. In the past year, the platform has removed more than seventy-five million \u201cspammy tracks\u201d from its service, but countless unmarked A.I. tracks remain, and many listeners can\u2019t tell the difference. In one recent study<\/a>, participants could successfully discern A.I.-generated music from human-made music only fifty-three per cent of the time.<\/p>\n If you hear an A.I.-generated track online, chances are that it was created with one of two popular song-making apps, Suno or Udio. Arter\u2019s process involves both. He writes his own lyrics, often on his phone. Then he drafts text prompts with the\u00a0lyrics and notes about the track he\u2019s envisioning, and plugs the prompts\u00a0into the two apps to see which one produces better results. (Arter told me that \u201ca good prompt consists of (year), (genre of music), (instrumentation), (mood) and (emotion).\u201d) He generates dozens of versions of each track this way, iterating on the tune and the instrumentation, until he\u2019s happy with an output. Finally, he uses Midjourney to create album art for each new single\u2014usually closeup portraits of generic soul musicians\u2014and uploads the songs to streaming services including YouTube and Spotify. One of his more popular hits, with nearly nine hundred thousand plays on Spotify, is \u201cI\u2019m Letting Go of the Bullshit,\u201d a pastiche of a late-seventies R. & B. torch song and hip-hop-style lyrical empowerment: \u201cThis year I\u2019m in my flow \/ fuck anything that don\u2019t help me grow.\u201d The apps allow Arter to save a dashboard of style shortcuts, making it easier to produce future tracks in a similar vein. \u201cThe algorithm kind of learns your taste,\u201d he explained. Arter\u2019s music, released under the name Nick Hustles, is by no means subtle (another track is \u201cStop Bitching\u201d: \u201cnobody ever got rich \/ acting like a little bitch\u201d), and the instrumentals and vocals are undercut with the vacant tinniness that\u2019s the hallmark of A.I. sound. But the melodies\u2014and certain lyrical flourishes, such as a prominent expletive in \u201cDopest MotherFucker Alive\u201d\u2014are catchy enough to stick in your head.<\/p>\n This technology has \u201copened up a new realm of creative possibility,\u201d Arter said. He had never been a skilled singer; now he could dabble in the old-school R. & B. he grew up with. Suddenly, he could craft ageless personae to represent his music, complete with fictional backstories, in lieu of his aging millennial self. Arter has produced about a hundred and forty songs in the past year alone, and he doesn\u2019t hide the fact that his music is made with A.I., though the unsuspecting listener may not notice the name of his YouTube account, \u201cAI for the Culture.\u201d Many of his songs function as punch lines about everyday life: They\u2019re \u201ctalking about being in traffic, Chipotle messing up my order,\u201d Arter said. His \u0153uvre includes \u201cHealthy Hoes At Trader Joe\u2019s,\u201d \u201cI\u2019m About to Take My Ass to Sleeep\u201d [sic], and both \u201cI Got to Stop Vaping\u201d and \u201cI LOST MY FUCKING VAPE AGAIN<\/em>,\u201d catering to his demographic and covering all stages of addiction. He has never done marketing or promotion for his A.I. music, yet word of mouth and algorithmic recommendations, such as Spotify\u2019s Radio function, have propelled his work to a level of popularity that he could only dream of as a rapping teen-ager. Justin Bieber has used Arter\u2019s songs to soundtrack Instagram posts, and 50 Cent posted a video of himself singing along to a Nick Hustles track in his car. The rapper Young Thug adopted the chorus of Arter\u2019s \u201call my dogs got that dog in \u2019em\u201d for his hit track \u201cMiss My Dogs\u201d and gave Arter credit as a lyricist. Arter was able to quit his job in consulting and embark on a full-time career as a semiautomated musician. He now works with the music distributor UnitedMasters and makes money from more than fifty different streaming platforms. On the side, he generates novelty songs for clients\u2019 birthdays or weddings at five hundred dollars a pop (half price if you supply your own lyrics). Arter has no doubt that what he\u2019s doing is just a new way of being an artist: If your music \u201cchanges someone\u2019s life,\u201d he said, \u201cdoes it really matter if it was A.I.?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.newyorker.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nick Arter, a thirty-five-year-old in Washington, D.C., never quite managed to become a professional musician the old-fashioned way. He grew up in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in a music-loving family. 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